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A new, government-backed study [PDF] answers a question that has been on the minds of some Americans amid this summer's headlines from Charleston, Chattanooga, and Lafayette. According to the research, mass public shootings are indeed occurring more frequently than ever before in the United States.
The findings, published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) last week, show that the average rate of mass public shootings has increased from one incident per year in the 1970s to 4.5 incidents per year from 2010 through 2013. The numbers corroborate a 2014 report from Mother Jones. Scholars from the Harvard School of Public Health and Northeastern University independently analyzed data that Mother Jones had collected, and the results showed a marked rise in the frequency of mass shootings in the last three decades. Notwithstanding the recent cluster of high-profile incidents, the CRS report also finds that over the past 14 years, the rate of increase has tapered off.
http://www.thetrace.org/2015/08/mass-shootings-congressional-report/
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:56PM
I completely disagree. There are way too many Americans that are not attached to their rights and are perfectly OK with the government treating them like children.
The bad actions of a few should not result in the abridgement of the rights of many. At the very least things should be proportional to how much harm they cause.
Alcohol, cars that can exceed 70mph, tobacco, and "unhealthy" food can also harm others.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday August 05 2015, @11:14PM
There are way too many Americans that are not attached to their rights
Yes! And far too many Americans that are detached from reason and reality! But they are attached to God, gays and guns. That is all they have left. Rather pathetic for a nation that started out with such high ideals.